Voting Rights Act of 1965

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a law of the United States. It made it easier for African-Americans and non-English speaking citizens to vote. In some parts of the United States, people were forced to pay a poll tax or take a literacy test before being allowed to vote. This process kept many African-Americans from voting. The Voting Rights Act made all of those practices illegal.

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History	Abolitionism American Civil War Atlantic slave trade Black Lives Matter Brown v. Board of Education Civil Rights Act of 1964 Voting Rights Act of 1965 Civil Rights Act of 1968 Civil Rights Movement Dred Scott v. Sandford Free people of color Great Migration Inauguration of Barack Obama 2009 / Inauguration of Barack Obama 2013 Jim Crow laws Lynching Plessy v. Ferguson Reconstruction Amendments Reconstruction era Redlining Separate but equal Slavery Underground Railroad
Culture	Harlem Renaissance Juneteenth Kwanzaa Music Soul food Stereotypes
Notable people	Ralph Abernathy Crispus Attucks Julian Bond Amelia Boynton Carol Moseley Braun Edward Brooke Ralph Bunche George Washington Carver Shirley Chisholm Frederick Douglass W. E. B. Du Bois Fannie Lou Hamer Kamala Harris Jesse Jackson Michael Jackson Harriet Jacobs Martin Luther King Jr. John Lewis Joseph Lowery Malcolm X Thurgood Marshall Bob Moses Barack Obama Rosa Parks A. Philip Randolph Al Sharpton Fred Shuttlesworth Spingarn Medal winners Clarence Thomas Emmett Till Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Nat Turner Booker T. Washington Ida B. Wells Oprah Winfrey Andrew Young
Religion	Azusa Street Revival Black Church Nation of Islam
Political movements	Back-to-Africa movement Black Power Movement Garveyism Pan-Africanism Nationalism
Civic and economic groups	Black Panther Party National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) United Negro College Fund (UNCF)
Sports	Negro league baseball Baseball color line SWAC
Ethnic subdivisions	Black Indians Black Seminoles Black Southerners Gullah
Languages	English American English African-American Vernacular English
Diaspora	Canada Liberia Mexico
Category:African-American people

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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